Muddling for Solutions

Those who experienced the 1930s as adults are mostly gone now, but they left notes. We have a pretty good record of what that period was like. It wasn’t fun to begin with—then it got worse. This year, I’ve written several times about the 1930s parallels that Ray Dalio...

The Road to Default

Nothing is forever, not even debt. Every borrower eventually either repays what they owe, or defaults. Lenders may or may not have remedies. But one way or another, the debt goes away. One of Western civilization’s largest problems is we’ve convinced ourselves debt...

Dear diary..

Dated: 1st April, 2012. 12.05am I just stuck my head out of the window, and the cool breeze just took my breathe away. It wrapped itself around my body and I thought it would take me away to another world of serenity, peace, joy, maybe paradise. And I looked down at...

Have you BEEN human?

I remember studying hard for my political science paper. Which topics to study, which ones not study! It seemed confusing, irritating and so to stay away from web pages like Google and Wikipedia, I went for walk and grabbed magazines like the Frontline, Outlook and...